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Enel Begins Building Salitrillos Wind Farm In Mexico
Enel Green Power México (EGPM) has started construction of the 93 MW Salitrillos wind farm, located in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
The overall...
How To Improve Underperforming Wind Fleets – Without New Hardware Or Turbines
Because of underperformance and downtime, the current U.S. wind fleet could produce an estimated 12 TWh more energy than it currently does, according to...
Global Partners Come Together To Support Dominican Wind Power
With support from the Canadian government, the International Finance Corp., a member of the World Bank Group, has completed an $80 million financing package...
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind Names New CEO, Co-CEO And Board
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Vestas Wind Systems (Vestas) have named Philippe Kavafyan as CEO and Lars Bondo Krogsgaard as co-CEO of MHI Vestas...
Acciona To Supply Renewable Energy For Unilever In Spain
Acciona Energía has secured a new corporate renewable energy deal with Unilever, a global provider of food, personal care and cleaning products.
The contract covers...
With New Texas Wind Deal, Nike Hits Renewables Milestone
Avangrid Renewables has signed a deal with Nike for 86 MW of Texas wind power, representing Avangrid’s second major wind contract with the Oregon-based...
Quinbrook Acquires Diverse U.S. Wind Portfolio From NextEra
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a global investment manager specializing in lower-carbon and renewable energy infrastructure, has acquired a 223 MW operational wind portfolio from subsidiaries...
Report Shows ‘Immediate Need’ For Transmission Planners To Account For Corporate Renewables Demand
Big companies are increasingly signing deals to buy wind and solar power, and their large and growing demand may exceed the capacity of existing...
Siemens Gamesa Scores 330 MW In The U.S.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has signed two U.S. orders for the supply of 95 G132-3.465 MW wind turbines totaling 330 MW.
Once both wind...
New York State Siting Board Gives Milestone Approval To Cassadaga Wind Project
Today, the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment met in Albany to issue its very first “Certificate of Environmental...
ALLETE Buys PTC-Qualifying Turbines From GE
Duluth, Minn.-based ALLETE Clean Energy has announced a 40 MW purchase of wind turbines from GE Renewable Energy.
The turbines qualify for 80% of the...
Mexico Court Puts Stop To 396 MW Wind Farm
Ruling that proper approval had not been granted by the area’s indigenous community, Mexico’s Supreme Court has stopped an under-construction wind farm in Oaxaca.
According...
Tuscon Electric Power Seeking Up To 150 MW Of New Wind
Tucson Electric Power (TEP), which provides electric service to approximately 420,000 customers in southern Arizona, plans to issue a request for proposals (RFP) this...
Financing Closed For Stage One Of GE-Powered Oklahoma Wind Farm
GE and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a global investment manager specializing in renewable energy infrastructure, have announced that the Quinbrook Low Carbon Power Fund has...
All Renewables To Be Cost-Competitive With Fossil Fuels: IRENA
The global cost of generating power from onshore wind has fallen by nearly a quarter since 2010, while solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity costs have...
Feds Propose ‘Design Envelope’ Approach To U.S. Offshore Wind Development
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released draft guidelines for the use of a “design envelope” approach...
Avangrid Brings 500 MW Of U.S. Wind Online
In recent weeks, Avangrid Renewables began commercial operations at three new U.S. wind farms.
More than 500 MW of new wind farms in California, New Mexico...
Nordex Reports Strong Q4 For North American Wind Orders
In the fourth quarter of 2017, the Nordex Group received firm orders for 1,598.6 MW, representing an increase of 12.5% over the fourth quarter...
CPUC Approves PG&E Nuclear Plant Closure But Cuts ‘Critical Elements’ Of Plan
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) request to retire Diablo Canyon, the state's last remaining nuclear...
New President/CEO At MidAmerican Energy
Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Co., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy and developer of the 2 GW Wind XI project in Iowa, has...